For whatever value the NSA program might hold, it isn't worth a tinker's damn if unethical thugs are in charge of it.....in other words, Character counts.....and team BO's character is malevolent.
Amen.
And that, my friend, sums up the entire issue more concisely than anything which I have yet to read on the subject.
May be a lot more to this story. Cheney was openly wondering if Snowden was being aided by the Chinese and why he would flee to China. Also he wonders if there were others in the NSA helping him or passing more sensitive information.
The best expose on PRISM now comes from the 40 year career NSA employee, William Benny, who became the Director of Intelligence there under Geroge W. Bush. He has gone public since Snowden and detailed the full capabilities of PRISM and what the NSA was doing.
Former Director of NSA Intelligence reveals the full extent of PRISM capabilities. MUST SEE!
Hundreds of people paid by the Red Chinese government pretended to rally in Hong Kong Saturday in support of former U.S. government contractor Edward Snowden...
When I was in China the government would bus protesters armed with bags of garbage - mostly PLA - to the embassy of which ever country had offended the powers that be. Once the TV reporters got set up the director called "Action!" and the spontaneous protest got started.